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than twice as !ong as branchial filaments, a little shorter than 
eye. Scales thin, rather deciduous, with conspicuous vertical 
lines partly forming a network on the hinder part of the scale, 
the border of which is roughened. Abdominal scutes about 
25, beginning at the throat, to being postventral. Yellowish 
silvery, back dark. Sometimes a blackish spot across the nape 
down to the scapula. Fins hyaline, caudal margined with 
blackish. Length to 140 mm. (A specimen of Bleeker’s collec- 
tion seen by us). 
Habitat: Java (Batavia, Bantam); Borneo (Sarawak | British 
Mus.]|); Singapore. — China; British India; Queensland ? 
In sea. 
10. Engraulis valenciennesi (Blkr.). 
Engraulis mystax Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal XVIII. 1850, p. 1289. (nec 
Bl. Schn.), 
Engraulis mystax Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. XXIV. 1852. Haringacht. p. 43. 
(nec Bl. Schn.). 
Stolephorus (Thrissa) Valenciennesi Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk., IIT. 1866, p. 306. 
Engraulis Valenctennesi Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. 1866—1872, p. 133. 
Engraulis Hamiltoni Duncker, Mitth. Naturh. Mus. Hamburg XXI. 1904, p. 185. 
(mec Gray). 
Thryssa valenciennesi Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1911, p. 220. 
B. 1213; D. 1. 13—14; A. 38—42; PP: 12—135) Ve 7 
El, about JOM. treet 2, 
Oblong, compressed, dorsal profile much more convex than 
abdominal profile, which is nearly straight. Rostro-frontal profile 
convex. Height 3'/,—3?/,, head 4—4'/,, eye 3'/s—37/3. Snout 
rounded, prominent, */, of eye. Maxillary dilated above the 
mandibulary joint, tapering behind, surpassing base of pec- 
torals. Dorsal more than half the length of the head, nearer 
to caudal than to snout, much higher than long. Origin of dorsal 
nearer to caudal than to snout. Anal 2*|,—3 in length, its origin 
a little before end of dorsal.') Ventrals not much longer than 
eye, in the middle between anal and suboperculum. Pectorals 
about as long as head without snout, reaching ventrals. Teeth 
on jaws, vomer, palatines, pterygoids and tongue, those on 
jaws directed forward; 16—17 spinulated gillrakers, |, of 
eye. Scales thin, deciduous, with fine vertical lines, 23 abdo- 
minal scutes, beginning at the throat, 8 being ventral. Silvery, 
1) As also in Bleeker’s figure. 
